Froissart, Sir John (Thomas Johnes translator, Noel Humphreys illustrations)CHRONICLES OF ENGLAND, FRANCE, SPAIN, and The Adjoining Countries, from the latter part of the reign of Edward II. to the coronation of Henry IV. by Sir John Froissart. Translated from the French Editions, with variations and additions from many celebrated MSS. by Thomas Johnes, Esq London printed by Bradbury, Evans: George Routledge and Sons, 1868. Hardcover. Very Good-. Extra-illustrated with 74 lithographic plates exquisitely hand-finished from H. Noel Humphreys' Illuminated Illustrations of Froissart + 3 extra titlepages in color + 116 text wood-engravings. TWO VOLUMES Royal octavo (242x162mm) half morocco, gilt spine emblems, All Edges Gilt (tips rubbed but leather not worn through/spine edges shelf worn). Some foxing throughout mostly to guard sheets & margins. The hand-coloured plates are bright with text clean except around the guards. *Hand-colouring in finest detail similar to a sumptuous 15th century Book of Hours. The extra illuminated plates were first published separately in Noel Humphreys' "Illuminated Illustrations of Froissart selected from the MS. in the British Museum" (1844) and "Illuminated Illustrations .. selected from the MS. in the Bibliothèque royale, Paris, and from other sources" (1845). "Sets with illuminated plates...are scarce & expensive" (Lowndes).

"ALEPH" [HARVEY, William Henry]Geographical Fun: Being Humorous Outlines of Various Countries with an Introduction and Descriptive Lines by.. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1868].. Small 4to. (viii), (2) pp. Publisher's printed boards recently rebacked to style in maroon cloth, contemporary gift inscription to the front free endpaper along with the original bookseller's ticket of W. Whiteley of Westbourne Grove to the front pastedown. 12 anthropomorphic colour maps of European countries - England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France, Spain, Italy, Prussia, Germany, Holland & Belgium, Denmark and Russia. Some wear to the boards with occasional loss to the paper at the edges, a little spotting to the front and rear leaves plus the Home Countries maps, the maps otherwise in very good condition.

Mill, Mrs Stuart [Harriet Taylor Mill]Enfranchisement of Women London: Trubner & Co, 1868. First offprint. Pamphlet. Near Fine. Near Fine in original self wraps. Title page lightly foxed with lower margin trimmed, affecting the bottom portion of price (still legible as "Price One Penny"); else a clean and complete copy of this scarce feminist text which is not currently held by any institution and has never before appeared at auction.Following the groundbreaking Seneca Falls Convention of 1848, Harriet Taylor Mill composed Enfranchisement of Women to raise awareness in England about American women's work for legal equality. Published anonymously by the Westminster Review in 1851, it rapidly became an iconic and influential argument for women's need to vocally and actively pursue their own rights. "The agitation which has commenced is not the pleading by male writers and orators for women...it is a political movement, practical in its objects, carried on in a form which denotes an intention to persevere. And, it is a movement not merely for women, but by them...the promoters of this new agitation take their stand on principles and do not fear to declare these in their widest extent, without time-serving or compromise." Though the Enfranchisement soon after appeared in the US bearing Harriet Taylor Mill's name, it would not appear in Britain as an offprint with her by-line until this publication 17 years later. The inspiration for her husband John Stuart Mill's political treatise The Subjection of Women, Enfranchisement of Women is one of the rarest 19th century feminist works. Near Fine.

Trial; Phillips, James Jeter, DefendantThe Drinker Farm Tragedy, Trial and Conviction of James Jeter 1868. Richmond, 1868. McDade 747. Richmond, 1868. McDade 747. A Scarce McDade Item Phillips, James Jeter, Defendant. The Drinker Farm Tragedy. Trial and Conviction of James Jeter Phillips, For the Murder of His Wife. With Portraits. Richmond: Published by J. Wall Turner, V.L. Fore, Printer), 1868. 96 pp. 2 full- page woodcut portraits (of Phillips and his wife, Mrs. Mary Emma Phillips). Octavo (7-1/2" x 4-1/2"). Original printed wrappers, with advertisements for various Richmond businesses rear and inside front covers. Negligible light soiling and shelfwear, light toning to interior. An exceptionally well preserved copy. $750. * Only edition. "Phillips, a scion of a 'good' Virginia family, twenty-four years old, murdered his wife Emily, who was ten years older, on a Henrico County, Virginia, roadside near Drinker's farm. He shot her with a small pistol, and her body was unidentified for three months" (McDade). OCLC locates 4 copies in North American law libraries (Duke, Harvard, University of Virginia, Yale). McDade, The Annals of Murder 747.

PHOTOGRAPHY] VARIOUS AUTHORS.Scotland: Her Songs and Scenery. As Sung by Her Bards and Seen by the Camera London: A. W. Bennett, 1868 - Bound in publisherÕs full leather; heavily decorated in gilt and blind ; all edges gilt. Illustrated with fourteen original photographs which are mounted on bound-in, captioned leaves; minor rubbing and tears; an excellent copy. The photographers and authors (unsurprisingly, Burns is prominently represented) are identified either in the contents or in the text. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Costa, Isaac (compiler)Gopsill's Philadelphia City and Business Directory for 1868-9 Philadelphia: Published by James Gopsill, 1868. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +. Small thick quarto: approx. 9.5" x 6.5" x 5". Printed paper covered boards with leather spine. Advertisements printed on the boards, spine, top and bottom text edge and both front and rear paste downs. Collated as follows: xxxi advertisements on yellow paper in front and after page 16 (including the front paste down counted as i), folding frontispiece large map of Philadelphia (in very good condition), 1952 pages. Approx. 74 non numbered, full page advertisements printed on yellow paper, 2 printed on pink paper, and 2 pages on thick card stock. Includes 2 leaves on glossy engraved paper. Advertisements on yellow paper following page 1952 are collated as "xxxi-lxxi". Several illustrated ads and some in text illustrations. Light shelf and edge wear to boards. Leather spine is in good condition with some rubs and light edge wear. One of the engraved glossy advertisements has a small hole with minor text loss. Front hinge is strong. Rear hinge has a slight crack. Weight approx. 7lbs. Note: This copy matches the OCLC catalog description except for a folding leave. This copy has 2 leaves none folding. Apparently the folding leave was not bound in or was carefully removed.Scarce. 2 copies located in OCLC as of 1/18.

Dickens, CharlesCharles Dickens Signed Portrait Photograph. 1868. Large oval portrait photograph measures 20 inches by 116 inches. Matted in a contemporary frame which measures 25.5. inches by 29.5 inches. Signed "Charles Dickens (with a large flourish) Boston Sixth March 1868." In 1867, Charles Dickens began his second American reading tour at Boston's Tremont Temple, where an enthusiastic audience delighted in some of his most notable works, members of the audience included legendary literary stars such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Although Dickens was in declining health, he embarked on an ambitious travel schedule across the United States. Dickens returned to Boston once more before concluding his U.S. tour in New York City. When Charles Dickens arrived in Boston on November 19, 1867, the celebrated English author spent several days at the Parker House hotel recuperating from the voyage. As conscientious a performer as he was a writer, Dickens had prepared diligently for his performances, redrafting and memorizing key passages from his books especially for these engagements. He used a book only as a prop; he was so familiar with the material that he could improvise with ease. However, during his 1867-1868 tour he was plagued with Flu-like symptoms, insomnia, and an inflammation of his foot, which forced him to walk with a cane. During his last tours in 1868, Dickens confined much of his performances to the New England area. Dickens was grateful for the income he desperately needed from his readings, which generated $140,000, close to $2,000,000 today; but he longed for home. On April 8, 1868, Dickens gave the last performance of the tour. Prolonged applause followed the reading. He closed by telling the audience, "In this brief life of ours, it is sad to do almost anything for the last time... Ladies and gentlemen, I beg most earnestly, most gratefully, and most affectionately, to bid you, each and all, farewell." He died two years later, having written 14 novels, several of which are considered classics of English literature. A desirable piece of Victorian literary history. Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognized him as a literary genius.

John WisdenJohn Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack for 1868 - 1868 Wisden Original Wrappers Exceptional Condition 1868. On offer here is an 1868 Wisden in it's original wrappers and in quite exceptional condition. The front and rear wrappers are flat and bright and unmarked. There is an ownership name to the top of the front wrapper. The spine is complete with the year ""1868"" written in ink to the spine. The book is entirely original and without any restoration at all. The contents of the book are in fine, clean condition. This copy together with the 1864 that I have listed are probably the finest editions of the first 15 years that I have been able to offer for sale.

Pacific Mail Steamship Company Broadside 1868. Broadside. Pink broadside measuring 9" x 5 ½" with text, border and illustrations in black. In very good condition with light soiling, affecting some content, light creasing where once folded, and light wear to top edge; light soiling and foxing on verso. Broadside reads: "From San Francisco to New York in 20 Days! Passengers berthed through! No detention! No expense on the Trip! The Pacific Mail Steamship Company for New York via Panama. The Fast and Favorite Steamship Constitution! Captain Wm. H. Hudson, will be dispatched for Panama, on Friday, Nov. 6th, '68, at 11 O'clock, A. M. , from Wharf corner First and Brannan Sts. , Connecting, via Panama Railroad at Aspinwall, with the magnificent steamship, Alaska, Captain Gray For New York, Making the Through trip in 90 days." Underneath this larger print are specifics about isthmus transit and information on the Steamship "Japan" which would be dispatched to Hong Kong and Yokohama. Manuscript notes are in the margins which compare prices of trips "Fare on the last trip was Stearage [sic] $61 this trip it is $71." In the mid 19th century steamships were the preferred means of transport of people and goods from coast to coast. The Pacific Mail Steamship Company began transporting mail through a contract with the U. S. Government in 1848, transporting their goods from the Isthmus of Panama to California. With the discovery of gold, California became a prime destination and the transport of people, as well as mail, became very profitable. This was the preferred way to transport until the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869. "Steamship Japan" mentioned in small print, procures an important piece of cultural history of California, documenting the route between San Francisco, Hong Kong, and Yokohama, and the diversity brought with it. This broadside provides a beautiful record of U. S. maritime and transport history. Not found in commerce or OCLC. .

Millie and Christine McCoy, The Carolina Twins. Germon, W.L.Mammoth portrait of Mille and Christine McCoy This spectacular large-format photograph depicts the celebrated conjoined twins Millie and Christine McKoy, known variously as "Millie-Christine," "The Carolina Twins," and "The Two-headed Nightingale." The two once declared, "Although we speak of ourselves in the plural, we feel as but one person." The McKoy sisters shared one of the most remarkable lives in American history. Born into slavery on a North Carolina plantation in 1851, the infants were sold for public exhibition. Over the next few years, they were kidnapped and sold several times. Slaveowner Joseph Smith and his wife recovered them in England and determined to groom the precocious and intelligent girls for the stage. They taught them to read, write, sing, dance, play piano, and give recitations in several languages. "Soon the twins were making public appearances to great acclaim throughout the country as well as abroad, under Smith's personal management. Billed variously as the 'Two-Headed Girl' and the 'Two-Headed Nightingale,' the duo known as Millie-Christine presented acts that included musical performances and declamations of verse that they had written themselves" (ANB). The Civil War brought these performances to a halt, but after the war the McKoys continued to live with the Smiths, and for years Joseph Smith Jr. managed them. In the late 1860s the girls, still in their teens, toured America with Chang and Eng Bunker, the famed Siamese twins. Chang and Eng, slaveholders in North Carolina, had come out of retirement in an attempt to recoup losses resulting from the war. In 1871 the sisters embarked on a seven-year tour of Europe, becoming an international sensation. The women then toured America for years, securing financial independence for themselves and their families. This splendid mammoth portrait was made between 1868 and 1871 by W. L. Germon, a leading Philadelphia portrait photographer from 1846 until his death in 1877. Germon made several portraits of Millie-Christine at this sitting, publishing some as 2 1⁄4 x 3 1⁄2 in. cartes-de-visite. A related pose in CDV form appears in Joanne Martell's Millie-Christine (2000), page 152. Germon also made portraits of Chang and Eng around the same time. The McKoy sisters sold their CDV and cabinet photographs in conjunction with their performances, but portraits of this size are virtually unheard of. We have not located another large-format portrait of the sisters. Large-format portraits of the famous sisters are of the greatest rarity. Their amazing story brings together many strands of American history and culture including slavery, the Civil War, race, gender, crime, entertainment, and business. Provenance: inscription on verso stating "Presented by Hon. John A. Ackley 1920" and mistakenly attributing the portrait to J. W. Hurn of Philadelphia. Ackley (1854- 1933) was a prominent auctioneer and New Jersey state legislator. Albumen print (22 x 18 in.), on heavy card mount (24 x 20 in.). Some surface wear and soling, but generally in good condition.

Floyd, William PryorJoss House on Black Rock, East Point, Hong Kong Albumen print, card mount. 8 ¾ x 11 ¾. This is an excellent early photograph of Lin Fa Kung Temple by William Pryor Floyd. A survey of Floyd's photographs in the China Mail of August 8, 1868 highlighted this photograph as "one of the most noteworthy of Floyd's views of native Chinese architecture." The Lin Fa Kung Temple was built as a worship place for Kwan Yin, also known as Kwun Yam, the goddess of mercy during the Qing Dynasty in the southeast area of Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. Legend says that Kwun Yam was once seen presenting herself on Lotus Rock so worshippers built the temple near the rock to praise the goddess of mercy. Traditional festivals still take place at the Lin Fa Kung Temple including the Zhongqiu Festival. In the 19th century the people of Tai Hang began preforming the spectacular "Fire Dragon Dance" during the festival to end a run of misfortune afflicting their village. To this day the tradition continues. A huge dragon made from straw and covered with burning incense sticks dances for three days and three nights accompanied by drummers and firecrackers. This is a superb early photograph of one of Hong Kong's prized temples before unique architectural elements were lost during renovations.

Lea, M. [Matthew] CareyA MANUAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY: INTENDED AS A TEXT BOOK FOR BEGINNERS AND A BOOK OF REFERENCE FOR ADVANCED PHOTOGRAPHERS Philadelphia: Benerman & Wilson, 1868. First edition. 8vo.,viii, [17] - 336 pp., occasional diagrams, plus 20 pp. adverts. Newly bound in half calf and marbled paper over boards. Near fine. A clearly written, complete procedural, with the following major parts which contain chapters of specific topics: Introduction to Photography; Photographic Optics and Theory of Perspective; Photographic Manipulations; Theoretical Considerations; and quite unusually for this time, Photography in its Relations to Health."Matthew Carey Lea, also known, as Carey Lea, son of scientist Isaac Lea and Frances Carey Lea, was born in Philadelphia on 18 August 1823. An acknowledged authority on photochemistry in the late nineteenth century and a member of the Franklin Institute, Lea began experimenting with the chemical properties of developer in 1864. Educated through tutors and the Philadelphia chemistry laboratory of Booth, Garrett and Blair, Lea particularly studied the function of silver in the development process. His scientific advancements of photographic processes included inventing the first mordant-dye picture in 1865 and increasing the clarity of developed dry plate negatives in 1880. Lea also wrote prolifically about his experiments. In 1864-1866, he assumed the position of American correspondent to the British Journal of Photography and became a steady contributor to the Philadelphia Photographer and Photographic Mosaics. In 1868, he authored A Manual of Photography. During the 1870s and 1880s, he continued to experiment with silver halide salts and the color process. On March 15, 1897, Lea died in Philadelphia, two years after his election to the National Academy of Sciences." Erika Piola, p 839 - 840, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHY.Roosen and Salu No. 6410.

ROBERT, [Louis Rémy]Résumé des Conférences sur les Manipulations Photographiques par Mr. Robert, Chef des Peintres à la Manufacture impériale de Sèvres 26 lithographed pages. Large 4to, cont. green pebbled cloth-backed marbled paper boards. [Paris]: École Impériale des Ponts et des Chaussées, 1868. First edition of this extremely rare technical treatise on various methods of photographic development by the famous photographer and early proponent of paper photography. Robert (1810-82), a member of the Société Française de Photographie, studied chemistry under Jean Baptiste Dumas at the École centrale des Arts et Manufactures. In 1832 Robert began working at the Manufacture nationale de Porcelaine de Sèvres, where he became the Director in 1871. "Robert began experimenting with photography around 1850. Material conditions made the Sèvres factory a natural place for photography to appear, where there were laboratories, chemical stocks, and the camera obscura already in use&hellip;Robert was soon experimenting freely with both wet and dry paper processes. He eventually became a recognized expert in all the period's methods, and from 1858 to 1872 he enjoyed a state appointment teaching photography to engineers at the École des ponts et chaussées and the École du génie maritime&hellip;"-John Hannavy, ed., Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, p. 1199. Robert became well-known for his landscape and architectural photographs as well as for his portraiture; images made of his colleagues in the laboratory are among photography's earliest images of workers in the workplace. He also mastered the albumen-on-glass process, learned from Hippolyte Bayard. Along with the professional photographers of Paris, "a second constellation of inspired photographers developed in Sèvres, along the Seine on the outskirts of Paris. Louis Robert and Victor Regnault were its central figures. Inclined by training and temperament toward endeavors that brought together the fields of painting and chemistry, Robert was among the earliest French artists to take up paper photography, around 1850. After Regnault, an important chemist and pioneering photographer, became director of the porcelain factory in 1852, Robert's photographic activity intensified, no doubt because the two men experimented together and encouraged each other's work."-"Louis-Rémy Robert," by Malcolm Daniel on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's website. The present work recapitulates lessons which Robert delivered at the École des Ponts et des Chaussées on the production of photographs in a variety of innovative methods. It also lists recipes, detailing the amount of chemicals and water needed for each process. Laid-in is a lithographed three-page pamphlet entitled: "Cours de Chimie du Val de Grâce, Formules de Photographie." It contains five further recipes for photographic processing. Fine copy. WorldCat locates two copies, one at Dartmouth (incorrectly under Georges Robert) and the École des Ponts et des Chaussées. &#10087; For additional information see "The Rise of Paper Photography in 1850s France" on the Met website.

DARWIN, Charles The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication. London: John Murray,, 1868. 2 volumes, octavo (221 x 144 mm). Contemporary half calf, spines rebacked, raised bands to spine, red and green labels, double fillet blind-ruled to marbled sides, endpapers, and edges. Illustrations in the text. Ownership inscription to title page in pencil. Extremities a little worn, occasional pale foxing to text block. An excellent copy. First edition, first issue, with the relevant issue points as called for by Freeman. The first issue, consisting of 1,500 copies, was published in January 1868 and was followed by a second the next month. The majority of the work consists of details about artificial selection and domestication of animals and plants but it also includes Darwin's provisional hypothesis of pangenesis in Chapter XXVII. "The term 'survival of the fittest' (borrowed at Wallace's insistence from Herbert Spencer's 1866 Principles of Biology) first appeared in the Variation and in the fifth edition of the Origin of Species (1869)" (ODNB).

Faulkner, HenryElephant Haunts London: Hurst & Blackett, 1868. First. Full Leather. VG+ to near Fine. 324 pp. Sportsman's narrative of the search for Dr Livingstone. To Faulkner, the search for Livingstone meant another opportunity to hunt along the untapped shores of Lake Malawi. Livingstone's encounters with elephants had been dramatically recounted by Baines and Faulkner anticipated the same big game hunting thrills when he set out on this expedition. The book is almost never seen listed and probably not in this condition. The Czech bibliography printed 25 years ago noted how hard it was to locate copies of this book. Finely bound in quarter leather, gilt rules, raised spine bands, gilt rules in bands. Internally fine. RARE.

WHITMAN, Walt Poems London: John Camden Hotten,, 1868. Selected and Edited by William Michael Rossetti. Octavo. Original blue cloth over bevelled boards by Bone & Son, titles gilt to spine, single rule frame in gilt to front cover, in blind to rear cover, brown coated endpapers. Engraved portrait frontispiece with facsimile signature, vignette to title page, 8 pp. of adverts bound at front, 24 pp of adverts bound at rear. Binder's ticket to rear pastedown, bookseller's blind stamp to front free endpaper. Spine gently rolled, creased, and toned, rubbing to extremities, light soiling to covers, faint foxing to text block edges; a very good copy. First edition, first issue, of the collection which "gave Whitman his first British readership" (ODNB), edited and with an introduction by William Michael Rossetti, with revisions to several of the poems by Whitman. This copy is in the A variant cloth binding, without the price to foot of spine (BAL).

(ARCHITECTURE.)Photographic album of Gothic architecture and proposed designs for the Royal Courts of Justice, London , ca. 1868-70 120 albumen photographs (primarily 6 x 8 in. to 15 ½ x 10 ½ in.), mounted, most in excellent condition with strong tones. Contemporary black morocco. Pencil captions. Photographs by Francis Bedford, Francis Frith, Antonio Beato, Frank Mason Good, and other photographers. This splendid album contains 120 fine medium and large format photographs of Gothic and High Victorian Gothic architecture. The images range from the great cathedrals and ruined abbeys of England and Europe to nineteenth-century English parish churches and country houses in the Gothic style. Panoramic views, doorways, facades, windows, columns, architectural details, and interiors are all represented. The album is a valuable resource for the study of Gothic architecture and for the history of the famous and obscure buildings it documents. Given the collection's wide-ranging coverage of Gothic architecture and its inclusion of photographs of eleven of the architect's own drawings, this album may have been a reference collection assembled by George Edmund Street, the leading English architect of his day. Street's career culminated in his design of the Law Courts of London, the nation's greatest public building in the second half of the nineteenth century. In 1868 the eleven architects competing for the commission submitted designs placing of the building on the Thames Embankment. Street won the competition, "the greatest architectural prize in this generation" (Barry). Drawing on his intensive study of Gothic architecture, Street designed the immense, dramatic building from its foundation to its elaborate carvings and spires, dazzling the judges with his finely wrought original drawings. Construction began in 1873 and was completed in late 1882, a year after Street's death due to over-work and exhaustion. This is a magnificent reference collection of medium and large format photographs assembled at the high water mark of Victorian Gothic architecture.

Panhard, Félix.L'Ordre du Saint-Esprit aux XVIIIe et XIXe Siècles. Notes historiques et biographiques sur les membres de cet ordre, Depuis Louis XV jusqu'à Charles X, 1715-1830. Précédé d'un précis historique. Paris, Dumoulin, 1868.. Octavo. Pp. 284. Title-page printed in red and black and with nice engraved vignette. Hardcover, bound in quarter calf and marbled boards, spine with gilt-tooled raised bands, trifle rubbed, gilt lettering direct; old stamp to title and two other pages. In about fine condition. ~ First edition. Rare. Printed in a limited edition of 150 copies only, this is copy number 23, monogrammed by the Author for authenticity. With the Author's signed dedication at head of half-title. Provenance: From the library of C. P. Mulder, renowned collector and international heraldry authority, with his charming armorial bookplate,"Nil Desperandum", to first free endpaper. For a complete catalogue of Mulder's library, from which we offer a considerable number of items, see: C. P. Mulder: "Catalogue of Works on Orders, Decorations and Medals in the Library of C. P. Mulder" (Rotterdam, 1988). See also: C. P. Mulder & A. A. Purves: "Bibliography of Orders and Decorations" (Copenhagen, 1999).

[Queen Victoria] Helps, ArthurLeaves From The Journal of Our Life In The Highlands From 1848 To 1861. To Which Are Prefixed and Added Extracts From The Same Journal Giving Account of Earlier Visits to Scotland, and Tours in England and Ireland, and Yachting Excursions. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1868. Second Edition. Full leather. Very good. Octavo, 315pp. Bound in green leather, gilt title on spine and gilt decorations on front and rear boards. Gilt top leafs. Detached silk page marker. Inscribed by Queen Victoria to Lord Ribblesdale on front end paper. Inscription reads: "To Lord Ribblesdale - From Victoria R.I. Windsor Castle - Dec: 12. 1881_." This book contains portions of the journals of Queen Victoria. Published against the wishes of her advisors, this book went on to sell 20,000 copies and was a best seller of its time. The book was inscribed to Lord Ribblesdale, who was a member of the House of Lords. He may best be remembered for a portrait painted by John Singer Sargent, said to "optimize the British Aristocrat." An attractive copy.

(Darwin, Charles ) Cameron, Julia MargaretPortrait of Charles Darwin, signed by Darwin and by Cameron THE ICONIC PORTRAIT OF CHARLES DARWIN, boldly signed by Charles Darwin and by Julia Margaret Cameron. Albumen print on paper (2¼ x 3½ in.), carte-de-visite mount with gold lithograph gold border. Inscribed by Cameron "From life Copyright Julia Margaret Cameron." Very good condition. Julia Margaret Cameron's portrait of Darwin is the most famous photograph of a 19th-century scientist. Darwin remarked, "I like this photograph very much better than any other which has been taken of me." In 1868, Darwin and his family traveled to the Isle of Wight, both for a long holiday and to aid in his recuperation from a recent illness. The Darwins rented a house from Cameron and were immediately charmed by the photographer: "She received the whole family with open-hearted kindness and hospitality, and Darwin always retained a warm feeling of friendship for her. When they left she came to see them off, loading them with presents of photographs. Moved, Darwin said: 'Mrs. Cameron, there are sixteen people in this house, all in love with you.' Darwin paid her for her portraits of him, and as the Camerons had by that time lost a great deal of money through the continued failure of the coffee crop, she gladly accepted payment and ran boasting to her husband, 'Look, Charles, what a lot of money!'" (Gernsheim, Julia Margaret Cameron).

Darwin, CharlesThe Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication London: John Murray, 1868 Two volumes. Original green cloth. Light wear. A near fine set. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, one of 1500 copies. "The two issues have considerable textual differences" (Freeman). "Survival of the fittest" appears here for the first time in any of Darwin's works. Darwin planned to prepare a massive work fleshing out the theories outlined in On the Origin of Species. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, the only section of this 'big book" to have been published, "corresponds to the first two intended chapters" (Freeman). This work "contained his hypothesis of pangenesis, by means of which Darwin tried to frame an explanation of hereditary resemblance, inheritance of acquired characteristics, atavism, and regeneration. It was a brave attempt to account for a number of phenomena which were beyond the bounds of scientific knowledge in his day, such as fertilization by the union of sperm and egg, the mechanism of chromosomal inheritance, and the development of the embryo by successive cell division" (DSB).

ÅNGSTRÖM, Anders Jonas.Recherches sur le Spectre Solaire. [With:] Spectre normal du soleil. Atlas. Uppsala: W. Schultz, 1868. First edition, rare in unrestored original printed wrappers, of one of the founding works of spectroscopy in which Ångström demonstrated the presence of hydrogen and a number of other elements in the sun; the atlas contains his great map of the solar spectrum. "After 1861 Ångström intensively studied the spectrum of the sun, noticing the presence of hydrogen in the solar atmosphere and confirming the probable existence there of a number of other elements. In 1868 he published the monumental Recherches sur le Spectre Solaire, which contained an atlas of the solar spectrum with measurements of the wavelengths of approximately a thousand lines determined by the use of diffraction gratings. Ångström expressed his results in units of one ten-millionth of a millimetre - a unit of length that has been named the ångström unit in his honor. In order to have a precise basis for the new science of spectroscopy, accepted standards were needed. In 1861 Kirchhoff made a map of the solar spectrum and labeled lines with the corresponding scale readings of his own prismatic instrument. These rapidly became the almost universally accepted manner of designating spectral lines, but they were inconvenient because each observer had to correlate his own readings with those of the arbitrary Kirchhoff scale. Ångström's wavelength measurements provided a more precise and convenient reference and, after 1868, became a competing authoritative standard" (DSB). "Anders Ångström (1814-1874) was an astronomical observer, physicist, and a pioneer in spectroscopy. His father Johan was a clergyman in the Lutheran church of Sweden. Ångström and his two brothers, Johan and Carl, all received higher education. Carl became a professor of mining technology; Johan became a physician and well-known botanist. Ångström studied at Uppsala University, and in 1839 he became a docent in physics there. As the professor in physics was a fairly young man, and as there were no other academic positions in physics other than the professorship, Ångström switched to astronomy, where there was a position as astronomical observer at the university. "During the 1840s and 1850s Ångström worked as astronomical observer and acting professor of both astronomy and physics at Uppsala University. He did research in various fields during these years, for example in geomagnetism and the heat conduction of metals. "By the time he was appointed regular professor of physics, in 1858, Ångström had already published one of his two most famous contributions to the new scientific field of spectroscopy. The paper Optical Researches was published in Swedish in 1853 and in English and German two tears later. In it Ångström presented, in an unsystematic fashion, a number of experimental results concerning the absorption of light from electrical sparks in gases. He also made theoretical interpretations indicating, among other things, that gases absorb light of the same wavelengths that they emit when heated, and suggesting, somewhat obliquely, that the Fraunhofer lines could be explained in this way. "During the priority disputes that followed Gustav Kirchhoff's publication of the law of absorption and the explanation of the Fraunhofer lines around 1860, Ångström and his collaborator at Uppsala University, Robert Thalén, vigorously defended the Swede's priority. Their claims were to some extent recognized also in Britain when the Royal Society elected Ångström foreign member in 1870 and awarded him the Rumford Medal two years later. These honors were also given in recognition of Ångström's other important spectroscopic work, an atlas of the solar spectrum published in 1868. Much of the painstaking work that went into the atlas of the Fraunhofer lines (identified by wavelengths, which led to the designation Ångström being used for the unit of length 10-10 m) had been carried out by Thalén, though Ångström appeared as sole author of the work. During the 1860s and 1870s Ångström and Thalén carried out a great number of spectroscopic measurements, not only on the Fraunhofer lines but also on the wavelengths of emission spectra of many substances. "During these decades and into the early 1880s, Ångström and Thalén dominated European spectroscopy. A measure of their influence is the publication of lists of spectroscopic data for the elements carried out by the British Association for the Advancement of Science [BAAS] in the mid-1880s. Of 67 elements, measurements by Ångström and Thalén (mostly by the latter) were given for 60; no other spectroscopists came close to that figure. Ångström 's atlas was used as standard reference by the BAAS, though it was soon to be superseded by the photographic atlas of Henry Rowland. "Ångström became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1850, of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1867, of the Royal Society in 1870, and of the French Academy of Sciences in 1873. He was elected a member of several other Swedish and foreign scientific societies as well. "In 1845 Ångström married Augusta Bedoire, and they had four children, two of whom survived to adulthood. Their son Knut became a professor of physics at Uppsala University, succeeding his father's successor Robert Thalén in 1896. Their daughter Anna married Carl Gustaf Lundquist, a student of her father's, who in 1875 succeeded Thalén as professor of theoretical physics. There were additional family ties between the Ångströms and other scientific families at Uppsala. Hence, Anders Ångström was a founder not only of the science of spectroscopy but also of a scientific dynasty" (Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers). Some copies have a further two plates showing the ultraviolet spectrum, not present in the Norman, Gedeon, Green and Honeyman copies. DSB I, p. 166; Norman 56; Honeyman 96. Text: Large 4to, pp. [iv], 42, xv, [1], with lithographed frontispiece showing Ångström's spectrometer; Atlas: Oblong folio, [ii], with six plates by Robert Thalén (1827-1905). Original brown printed wrappers.

(MORMONS). (DESERET ALPHABET)[Title in Deseret]: FIRST DESERET READER New York: Published for the Deseret University by Russell Bros, 1868. FIRST EDITION. Based on the popular McGuffey Readers, this is a reading textbook using the 38 vaguely Cyrillic and semiphonetic characters of the Deseret alphabet, an alphabet employed briefly by the Mormons who settled Deseret, the vast western territory that includes present-day Utah. While Brigham Young and others stated that the alphabet was created to aid immigrants arriving from many parts of the world by supplying them with a common language, in truth the new alphabet was at least as much a reflection of a prevailing xenophobia among the Mormons, who preached a self-sufficient isolationism as a moral barrier to the corruption of Gentiles. Created by Parley P. Pratt, Heber C. Kimball and George D. Watt and based in part on Pitman shorthand, the Deseret alphabet was introduced in 1854, and the necessary font for its printing was produced by the Russell House font foundry in New York. Deseret never really caught on, and as the population of Utah became less exclusively Mormon, it faded from use altogether.. 192 x 120 mm. (7 1/2 x 4 3/4"). 36 pp. FIRST EDITION. Publisher's cloth-backed illustrated orange paper boards. With illustrations in the text. Boards with just a hint of smudging, otherwise A FINE COPY, the contents clean, fresh, and bright, and the fragile binding entirely sound and pleasing. Based on the popular McGuffey Readers, this is a reading textbook using the 38 vaguely Cyrillic and semiphonetic characters of the Deseret alphabet, an alphabet employed briefly by the Mormons who settled Deseret, the vast western territory that includes present-day Utah. While Brigham Young and others stated that the alphabet was created to aid immigrants arriving from many parts of the world by supplying them with a common language, in truth the new alphabet was at least as much a reflection of a prevailing xenophobia among the Mormons, who preached a self-sufficient isolationism as a moral barrier to the corruption of Gentiles. Created by Parley P. Pratt, Heber C. Kimball and George D. Watt and based in part on Pitman shorthand, the Deseret alphabet was introduced in 1854, and the necessary font for its printing was produced by the Russell House font foundry in New York. Deseret never really caught on, and as the population of Utah became less exclusively Mormon, it faded from use altogether.

WILLIAMS, CLEMENT:Through Burmah to Western China. Being Notes of a Journey in 1863 to Establish the Practicability of a Trade-Route Between the Irawaddi and the Yang-tse-kiang. Edinburgh and London, W. Blackwood, 1868. 1868 1868 - Pp. xvi, adv. 26. With engraved frontispiece, two folding maps (somewhat foxed), five full page engraved plates and nine illustrations in the text. Publisher's cloth, blindstamped and with gilt vignette on upper cover, spine faded with lettering in gilt. Provenance: Colonel Sir John Conway Lloyd (1878-1954) of Dinas, a political reformer and antiquary.First edition. Williams was an assistant surgeon in the 68th Light Infantry and the first British political agent at Mandalay. He was determined to find a practical overland trade-route between Burma and Western China. The first chapter deals with trade and telegraph routes to Western China from Burma. The second chapter contains his diary of the journey up the Irrawaddy from Mandalay to Bhamo, and the return. He describes people and life at Bhamo, particularly of the Chinese, Shans and Kachins and Burmese officials. The illustrations are made after the author's own drawings and photographs. Cordier BI 177. Patricia M. Herbert "Burma" (volume 32 of World Bibliographical Series) item no. 58. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

HARVEY William HenryThe Genera of South African Plants 1868 - Arranged according to the natural system. Second edition. 8vo. Original decorated green cloth, lightly rubbed. 12, lii, 483pp. J.C. Juta, Cape Town; Longman, Green, Reader and Dyer, London, With the scarce additional leaf between pages 356 and 357 (Order Musaceae).Harvey spent seven years in South Africa (1835-45) studying its botany, and was appointed Colonial Treasurer in 1836. The first edition of this work was published in 1838. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

BROWNING, Robert.The Ring and the Book. London: Smith, Elder and Co.,, 1868-9. In four volumes. 4 volumes, foolscap octavo (166 × 102 mm). Contemporary reddish-brown morocco by Holloway, spines gilt-lettered in two compartments, others with gilt quatrefoil ornaments and small corner-pieces, boards ruled in gilt with a two-line fillet, board-edges gilt with a floral roll tool, turn-ins gilt with a palmette roll, gilt edges. Housed in a dark brown cloth slipcase. Bookplates of Frederick Locker. Spines a little darkened and gilt faded in places, sides a little marked in the grain, endpapers browned from turn-ins, still an excellent set. First edition, superb presentation copy to a fellow poet, with an original unpublished manuscript poem laid-in. This set is inscribed by Browning in each volume to Frederick Locker-Lampson (18211895), the well-connected Victorian poet and bibliophile who was well-acquainted with the likes of Arnold, Carlyle, Dickens, Eliot, Hunt, Ruskin, Tennyson, Thackeray and Trollope, and was a long-term friend of Browning. This is a very early presentation between the two poets, if not the earliest. The first volume is inscribed "Frederick Locker from his friend RB. Dec: 6 '68". The second and third, "Robert Browning to his friend Frederick Locker", undated. The fourth is inscribed "To F. Locker Esq. With repeated assurance of the true regards of Robert Browning. 91. Victoria Street. Feb. 27 '69". Laid-into the first volume is a witty six-line autograph poem by Browning on Athenaeum Club stationery, beginning "Here you behold us, Eve & Adam..." which remains apparently unpublished. On 6 July 1874 Locker married his second wife, the children's writer Hannah Jane Lampson, whose surname he added to his own. He gave these volumes to her as an engagement present, noting the fact on the blanks facing the inscribed titles. In the first volume, he has written, "Transferred to J.L. 5 May 1874. F.L. Robert Browning was the donor, Janie Lampson is the owner". His inscription in volume II reads, "Transferr'd to Jane Hannah Lampson", initialled by him and with the same date. Volume III has a similar inscription, "Transferr'd to H. Jane Lampson", also initialled, but with the following day's date; as does volume IV, now just "Jane Lampson", and with the jocular couplet added below: "I'm Jane's! I belong to her own dear self! Read, and return me to yonder shelf". A fine association copy of Browning's magnum opus, charmingly re-presented by Locker to his second wife. The book remained in their library, known as the Rowfant Library after Locker's home in Sussex, until the library was sold to an American bookseller in 1905 and dispersed.

MILL John StuartMILL John Stuart Autograph Letter Signed ("J. Stuart Mill") to Doctor Edward Lowenthal, referring to several of his published works, including On Liberty. 3½ pages 8vo in French, Avignon, 24 January 1868.